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Re: defining networks/prefix and host wildcards, and IPsec.



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At 06:52 PM 8/16/97 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>  For networks and prefixes, we could say things like:
>	(subject (name IANA IStar Achilles Sandelman))
>
>  {is IANA or Internic officially the owner for all IP addresses?}
>
>  which would work fine given certs which said something like:
>	(cert (issuer  (hash IANA's key))
>              (subject (hash IStar's key))
>	      (tag (name IStar)))
>	... (this is how one defines SDSI names, right?)


No, that's the older style.  One would use:

  (cert (issuer (name K_IANA istar))
	(subject K_istar)
	(tag (*))
  )

where K_x is a key or a hash.  The hash saves space, especially if you use 
the key multiple times.  The key, instead of a hash, saves some time in the 
verifier.

>  and some certs like:
>	(cert (issuer (name IANA))
>	      (subject (name IANA IStar))
>              (tag (route (* range "binary" #CDE93000#[ipv4] #CDE93FFF#[ipv4]))))

The syntax should be
            (tag (route (* range binary [ipv4] #CDE93000# [ipv4] #CDE93FFF# ) ) )

and the [ipv4] should probably be a more complete MIME type, although I'm 
not a MIME bigot.  I'd be inclined to leave it off, but now that we're facing
a world with multiple IP address lengths, we might need it.

>  [IStar owns 205.233.48.0/20]

The strings you gave are for a wider range of IP addresses.  Where's the typo?


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